Air India plane crash kills scores | World news | The Guardian Air India plane crash kills scores Up to 158 people killed in southern India after plane overshoots runway and crashes in gorge Indian firefighters and rescuers try to extinguish the fire in the wreckage of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore. Photograph: AP Saturday 22 May 2010 10.22 EDT First published on Saturday 22 May 2010 10.22 EDT Close This article is 6 years old Nearly 160 people were killed today when a plane overshot an airport runway and plunged into a gorge in southern India . Of the 166 people on board the Air India airliner, 158 died when it appeared to skid off the hilltop runway at Bajpe airport in Mangalore in heavy rain. Eight people survived the crash, which happened at 6.30am, and were being treated in nearby hospitals, according to local officials.

One survivor, Pradeep G Kotian, 28, said: "As soon as the plane touched the runway, it started vibrating and before we could realise what was happening, we heard a loud sound and the plane broke into two pieces. Then there was smoke and fire on the plane. "Nobody could do anything. Luckily, I saw the opening where the plane had split into two, and I jumped out of it. I could see three others who had also jumped out from the same opening." Kotain, who injured his hand and suffered burns to his feet, told CNN-IBN TV that the fire on the plane was small at first, but an explosion sparked a bigger blaze. Another survivor, 47-year-old Krishnan K, said: "It happened all of a sudden and I considered myself really lucky to have survived this crash. I thank God for my survival." Mayan Kutty, 48, who escaped the crash, said: "I consider myself really lucky. As soon as I jumped out of the plane, I spoke to my wife thinking she might be worried.

But she was shocked to hear the news." The Boeing 737-800, carrying 160 passengers and six crew members, crashed during heavy rains that also hampered the rescue effort. It is believed that cloudy conditions and reduced visibility may have contributed to the incident. The crash is believed to be the worst in India since the November 1996 mid-air collision between a Saudi airliner and a Kazakh cargo plane near New Delhi that killed 349 people. Bajpe airport, which has been shut following the crash, is on a plateau surrounded by hills, making it difficult for firefighters to reach the scene. The "table-top" runway ends in a valley, which means that if a plane overshoots it is likely to result in a major incident, according to aviation experts. Rescue workers had pulled 146 bodies from the charred wreckage, Air India official Jitender Bhargava said. Officials believed the chances of finding any more survivors were bleak, but efforts to recover and identify the bodies were expected to continue into the evening. C Basavanna, a regional fire officer, said: "We arrived here at 7am after receiving an emergency call.

Only 30% of the rescue work has been done so far and it may carry on beyond 7pm." Yogish Bhat, a member of the legislative assembly who rushed to the scene, said: "Many relatives are coming to the spot. But the bodies are so charred, it is impossible to identify them here. So we are sending them to hospitals." Residents who helped with the rescue efforts described their shock at seeing the crash site. Mohammad Haris, 42, who lives near the airport, said: "I heard a loud bang early in the morning. Initially I couldn't understand what happened, but then I saw smoke coming out from the valley near the airport. "Along with a few other neighbours, I rushed to the spot. It was rather difficult to reach the site because of the dense vegetation. We began pulling bodies from the wreckage and one of us informed the local authorities. I have never seen anything like this before. I am shocked." The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, expressed his condolences and promised compensation for the families of the victims. "This is a major calamity," the home minister for the state of Karnataka, VS Acharya, told CNN-IBN.

The Air India director, Anup Srivastava, said in a statement: "Air India Express regrets to announce that a B737-800 aircraft operating as flight IX-812 from Dubai to Mangalore was involved in an accident early this morning. "The accident occurred after the aircraft landed at Mangalore airport and overshot the runway. We are confirming the number of casualties. We have opened helplines and are making arrangements for rescue." 158 killed when Air India plane overshoots runway - The Portland Press Herald increase font size 158 killed when Air India plane overshoots runway Eight passengers are rescued after the plane tumbles off a cliff into a heavily wooded area. By The Washington Post Read Article NEW DELHI — An Air India Express plane overshot a table-top runway in southern India and tumbled off a cliff into a heavily wooded hilly area, killing 158 people, officials said. The Boeing 737 from Dubai carried 160 passengers and six crew members when it crashed outside the city of Mangalore at 6:30 a.m. It then caught fire, hampering immediate rescue attempts from people in the neighboring village of Manapur.

Additional Photos A relative of a victim of the Air India Express plane crash waits at a mortuary in Mangalore, southern India, on Saturday. Search photos available for purchase: Photo Store → Television images showed charred bodies being pulled out of the wreckage as firefighters worked to douse the flames. In one case, a child’s limp, burned body was extricated from the smoldering plane by a policeman, who carried the child up a hill as other rescuers offered to pull him up. Eight passengers were rescued and taken to local hospitals for treatment, Air India director Anup Srivastava said in a statement. “We are setting up helplines and contacting relatives,” he said. All the passengers were Indian and, of them, there were 105 men, 32 women, 19 children and four infants, Srivastava told an afternoon news conference. The plane also carried two pilots and four cabin crew members. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said three survivors suffered major injuries, three escaped with minor injuries and one passenger was unhurt. By Saturday afternoon, 146 bodies had been recovered.

Patel described the pilot of the doomed flight, Zlatko Glusica, as seasoned and experienced, with about 2,700 hours flying a Boeing 737 and 10,000 hours in the cockpit. Patel added that Glusica, a British citizen, also was familiar with Mangalore airport and runway, having flown in and out several times. “Because the spillover area is very limited on the runway, (the plane) went over the cliff,” Patel told reporters in Mangalore. A team has been set up to investigate the causes of the crash. Aviation officials said the black box and voice recorder had not yet been recovered. The aircraft was acquired in 2007 and was without any “history of defects or any malfunction,” Patel said. Weather conditions at the time of the crash were relatively normal with calm winds, and visibility was adequate, he said. “There was no rain at the time of the incident. The runway was also dry,” he said, adding that everything about the flight appeared to be normal, except for the touchdown. “It all happened in just a few seconds,” one survivor, Abdul Totuttur, said by telephone from the K.S. Hegde Hospital.

“By the grace of Allah, I have survived. Fortunately I was on a window seat, 19 A of the flight.” Totuttur is a manager of a sporting goods shop in Dubai and was returning home to visit family for a 10-day break. He described his escape: “The right wing was on the ground, but the left wing of the plane was up in the air. Then I saw the plane break into two in the middle. I had very little time. But I jumped out, about eight feet. I had two other people (with me) who did the same. “It was all black,” Totuttur said. “I could hear people trapped inside screaming helplessly. I walked on fire for some time. I limped and fell and picked myself up again. When I turned back and looked, there was a loud explosion and smoldering fire.” Totuttur said he walked up a hill, where he encountered rescuers, who gave him water. His brother took him by car to the hospital.

Share 8 Survivors in India Plane Crash 8 Survivors in India Plane Crash The other 158 aboard were killed By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted May 22, 2010 11:36 AM CDT View 8 more images (Newser) – A glimmer of positive news from today's plane crash in India: Eight people somehow survived. The other 158 aboard were killed when the Air India Express jet overshot the runway at a tricky hilltop airport in Mangalore, crashed over a cliff, and burst into flames. An Associated Press photo showed two rescuers running up a hill carrying a young girl covered in foam to waiting medics. The child's fate was not immediately known. The plane, traveling from Dubai, was carrying 160 passengers—all Indian—and six crew members. Four infants and 19 other children were among the passengers. The British pilot and Indian co-pilot were among the dead. Ummer Farook Mohammed, a survivor who suffered burns on his face and hands, said it felt like a tire burst after the plane landed. "There was a loud bang, and the plane caught fire," he said.

158 killed in air crash; 36 bodies unidentified - India - .flv - YouTube 158 killed in air crash; 36 bodies unidentified - India - .flv Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on May 22, 2010 158 killed in air crash; 36 bodies unidentified Mangalore: An Air India Express airliner crashed outside the airport here on Saturday, killing 158 people when it burst into flames after overshooting a table-top runway and plunging into forest below. There were eight survivors after the Boeing 737-800, which had come from Dubai with 166 people on board including six crew members, appeared to skid off the runway in rain, Air India director Anup Srivastava said. Most of the passengers died instantly. Many bodies were charred beyond recognition and some with seat belts still strapped on, were recovered.

DNA tests will be conducted to identify the 36 bodies. Civil Aviation Secretary M.M. Nambiar said a court of inquiry is to be set up and Boeing has said it will assist the investigation. The aircraft, the civil aviation ministry said, touched down the 2.45 km Runway 24 "slightly beyond the touch down zone, overshot the runway and went in the valley beyond the runway". Eight people, including an infant, were the initial survivors. However, a four-year-old girl died on the way to hospital, where some of the injured remained in critical condition. All passengers were Indians, many returning home from Dubai where they worked. An estimated 50 were from Kerala, whose northern border almost touches Mangalore. Among those who survived was Keralite Krishnan, who had a miraculous escape when he jumped through a gap in the broken aircraft just before it turned into a ball of fire. "I saw the plane catch fire and heard the shrieks of my co-passengers inside," said Krishnan, recalling how the aircraft shook as it lost one of its tyres after the landing. "We had no hope to survive, but we survived," Pradeep, a survivor who is an Indian technician working in Dubai, said.

"The plane broke into two and we jumped off the plane. As soon as the plane landed, within seconds this happened." Local television showed a fireman carrying what seemed to be the remains of a child from the smoking wreckage. Charred bodies lay in the forested terrain. All the passengers were Indian nationals, an Air India official in Dubai said. Many were likely Indian migrant workers in Dubai. The pilot was Serbian and said to be very experienced. Air India Express is the budget arm of the loss-ridden state-run carrier Air India, which has been fending off growing competition from private airlines. The flight's black box has been recovered, the United Arab Emirates state news agency WAM said. But Air India official Nambiar said the search for the flight data recorder was still going on. The crash appeared to be an accident, Indian officials said. One TV report said the plane hit a radar pole on landing. "There was no distress indication from the pilot. That means between the pilot and the airport communication there was no indication of any problem," V.P. Agarwal, director of Airports Authority of India, told local television.

Category 158 dead in India plane crash - CNN.com 158 dead in India plane crash By the CNN Wire Staff STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: All but eight bodies recovered from charred wreck of plane Eight of 166 passengers aboard plane taken to hospital Plane overshot the runway, crashed into valley and burst into flames Boeing 737 flew from Dubai, UAE to Mangalore in southern India New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Rescue teams worked into the night at the smoldering scene of an Air India plane crash that killed 158 people Saturday after the jet overshot a runway in southern India, crashed into a ravine and burst into flames, officials said. As darkness descended, workers used portable lights to pull charred bodies out of the wreckage outside Mangalore International Airport. All but eight bodies have been recovered, the civil aviation ministry said. Eight of the 166 people on board Air India Flight IX-812 survived the crash and were taken to hospitals, where most were in good condition, CNN-IBN reported. Are you there?

Send photos, video The Boeing 737 took off from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and crashed while trying to make its scheduled landing in Mangalore at 6:30 a.m. Saturday (9 p.m. ET Friday), Air India spokesman Anup Srivastava said. India's civil aviation minister Praful Patel said an investigation was underway but reasons for the crash would not be known until the flight data and voice data recorders have been recovered. Emergency workers were attempting to cool the fiery wreckage Saturday night to keep the data intact. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board announced Saturday that it will send a team to India to assist in the investigation. Video: Plane crash in India Timeline: Recent plane crashes The Air India jet touched down on an 8,000-foot runway -- 2,000 feet longer than the old runway and more than sufficient for the Boeing 737, Patel said. The runway has been operational since 2006. Some of the survivors recounted their harrowing tales for CNN-IBN. Ummerfarook Mohammed said the cabin quickly filled with smoke after the jet skidded off the runway and hit a boundary wall.

The impact created a hole in the plane's body, he said, through which he crawled out and ran for his life. Nearby villagers carted him in a rickshaw to a hospital. A medical student said she escaped from the plane but that she then free-fell until she was snagged by a tree, where rescuers found her. Some of those flying back from Dubai were among the millions of Indians who work as laborers in Persian Gulf states. Mangalore's airport was "technically certified" by the country's civil aviation regulator. Patel said weather conditions were good -- calm winds, no rain and good visibility of 6 kilometers -- and both the pilot and co-pilot were experienced and had landed many times before at the Mangalore airport. They did not report any problems before landing the plane, India's civil aviation ministry said. However, the 90-meter spillover sand bed beyond the runway was limited and was not able to stop the aircraft after it overshot the tarmac, Patel said. Only the tail of the aircraft was left intact. Witnesses said the plane crashed through the hilltop airport's boundary wall and fell into a valley, CNN-IBN reported.

Survivors told CNN's sister network that they jumped out of the plane after it crashed, seconds before it burst into flames. Rescue workers struggled to reach the crash site in a hilly wooded area, the network said. Smoke from the plane also hampered rescue efforts and many of the recovered bodies were badly burned, CNN-IBN reported. Abhay Pathak, a regional manager for Air India based in Dubai, said there were 160 passengers on board the plane and six crew members. Of the passengers, 32 were women, 105 were men, 19 were children and four were infants, he said. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced financial aid for the victims Saturday and canceled scheduled events at his residence to mark the end of his first year in office. The government said families would receive 200,000 rupees, or about $4,260, for each dead passenger and 50,000 rupees, or $1,064, for every injured passenger. The airline has offered relatives of crash victims in the United Arab Emirates free passage to India, Pathak said, and about 20 people have accepted the offer.

Boeing released a statement saying the company would send a team to provide technical assistance to Indian authorities during their investigation. The NTSB team is expected to arrive in Mangalore on Tuesday morning and will include a senior air safety investigator, a flight operations specialist, an aircraft systems specialist, and technical advisers for Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration, the NTSB said in a statement. The city of Mangalore, situated in the state of Karnataka along India's Western Ghats or hills, had just christened a new terminal. A week later, it was marred by the crash, India's worst aviation disaster in a decade. In 2000, an Alliance Air jet crashed while trying to land in the northeastern city of Patna, killing about 60 people.

Air India has released the following telephone numbers to learn more information about the crash: General: +91 2560 3101 +91 2565 6196 In Mangalore: 0824 222 0422 Dubai (Air India Express): 00971 4 2165828/29 CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh, Raja Razek and Jennifer Deaton contributed to this report. Share this on: AIR INDIA EXPRESS FLIGHT IX812 CRASH ON 22-MAY-2010 ANIMATION - YouTube AIR INDIA EXPRESS FLIGHT IX812 CRASH ON 22-MAY-2010 ANIMATION Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 24, 2013 Please SUBSCRIBE! It's free, easy and quick!

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Visit this LINK and you can WATCH Air India Plane Crash In Mangalore (VIDEO) Air India Plane Crash In Mangalore (VIDEO) This Video is in the memory of Air India Express crew.And not to hurt anyone personally. AIR INDIA FAMILY IS STILL MISSING YOU ALL.... MANGALORE: At least 60 people are feared dead after an Air India Express aircraft from Dubai, carrying 173 passengers, overshot the runway while landing at t... Category Mangalore crash adds to AI woes Mangalore crash adds to AI woes Written by fe Bureau | Bangalore | Updated: May 23 2010, 09:23am hrs Eight survive, 158 killed in decades worst air disaster At least 158 people were killed after an Air India Express flight from Dubai overshot the newly built Mangalore runway and crashed into a gorge after catching fire at around 6.03 am on Saturday. At least eight people survived the crash. The exact reason for the accident is yet to be ascertained. A court of inquiry will be set up soon, civil aviation secretary Madhavan Nambiar has said.

Flight IX-892, a Boeing 737-800, with 166 people on board, landed at Mangalore at 6 am, touched Runway 24 slightly beyond the touchdown zone , hit a fence and went beyond the boundary wall of the airport and plunged into the valley. The crash is the worst in India since the November 1996 mid-air collision between a Saudi airliner and a Kazakh cargo plane near New Delhi that killed all 349 people on board. The Mangalore airport, located 31 km outside the main city, sits on top of a plateau surrounded by hills and dense vegetation, a feature described as a table-top runway. The aircraft, which was inducted on January 15, 2008, was being piloted by a British national of Serbian origin, Capt Zlatko Glusica. Glusica (55) had 10,000 hours of flying experience. According to the local police who coordinated rescue efforts, the plane slid nearly 100 feet into the valley and caught fire. Eight people were rescued and have been hospitalised, said Gopal B Hosur, inspector general of police, Mangalore.

Rescue teams have recovered 140 bodies so far and the process of identifying the victims was on, he added. The rescue teams took over two hours to douse the flames, a task made more difficult by the terrain. The instrument landing system was normal. No problem was reported by the pilot, a statement released by the civil aviation ministry said. Civil aviation minister Praful Patel, who arrived in Mangalore soon after the accident,told reporters that the aircraft was two-and-a-half-year-old and had no history of defect or malfunction. The pilot was familiar with the airport, having flown in and out of Mangalore several times, he added. The minister also said visibility was about 6 km at the time of the mishap and there was no rain. India has had a long unblemished record in civil aviation. We are deeply shocked and pained, he said. The runway, 2,450-metre-long and with a spillover area of 90 metre, was commissioned in 2006.

The Mangalore airport had registered a 15.4% increase in international flights in February 2010 compared to the corresponding period in 2009, according to a report by the Airports Authority of India. The plane broke on impact with smoke billowing from the main fuselage. According to preliminary reports, the aircraft exploded after it caught fire and was almost completely burnt with only its tail visible. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the families of those killed in Mangalore air crash and Rs 50,000 for the injured from the PMs National Relief Fund. Mangalore Crash News: Find Latest News on Mangalore Crash - NDTV.COM Mangalore Crash News Blog: I walked out of the broken plane, says Mangalore crash survivor Blog | Pradeep Kotyan | Tuesday August 26, 2014 I just want to reach out to the relatives of the missing passengers of the Malaysia Airlines plane and tell them - you need to keep praying.

Fire service dept woefully ill-prepared in Karnataka, says govt's auditor Karnataka News | Press Trust of India | Sunday April 1, 2012 Despite the Mangalore air crash and the fire mishap at Carlton Towers here, the Department of Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services does not have separate standard operating procedures (SOPs) to deal with different emergencies, a CAG report has revealed. India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday January 3, 2012 Mangalore crash: Supreme Court notice on Rs.75 lakh compensation Mangalore crash: Eyewitness account NDTV Correspondent | Friday November 25, 2011 An Air India Express aircraft from Dubai overshot the runway while landing at the Mangalore airport and crashed. About 169 people were on board the flight. Air India on Mangalore air crash NDTV Correspondent | Friday November 25, 2011 Air India Express regrets to announce that a B737-800 aircraft operating as flight IX-812 from Dubai to Mangalore was involved in an accident early this morning, May 22, 2010.

The accident occurred after the aircraft landed at Mangalore airport and overshot the runway. Air India is currently confirming the identities of the casualties. &nbs... Mangalore crash: Kerala High Court stays Rs 75 lakh compensation to victims' kin India News | NDTV Correspondent | Thursday August 25, 2011 In a setback for families of victims of last year's Mangalore air crash, a division bench of the Kerala High Court today overruled a single judge bench order asking air India to pay Rs 75 lakh as minimum compensation to families of victims. Air India to pay Rs 75 lakh to Mangalore crash victims India News | Miloni Bhatt, Sovi Vidyadharan | Thursday July 21, 2011 The Kerala High Court Wednesday directed Air India to pay interim compensation of Rs.75 lakh each to the kin of 158 passengers who died in an air crash in Mangalore last year.

Mangalore crash: One year on India News | NDTV Correspondent | Sunday May 22, 2011 A year ago, exactly on this day an Air India express aircraft over-shot the runway at Mangalore, killing 158 passengers flying from Dubai. Today, while the pain and grief has numbed for the victims' families, many of them still believe that the national carrier is haggling over the compensation they deserve."Nobody can manage the loss of my life. I... Mangalore air crash memorial demolished Cities | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday October 5, 2010 To its horror and disbelief, the Air India found that its memorial to the crash victims of Mangalore flight IX812 was destroyed, late on Monday night. The demolition was such, that not even a single panel was spared. The police suspect, miscreants used stones to break the granite structure. Air India does not yet know who is behind it, or even the ...

After Mangalore plane crash, co-pilots empowered India News | NDTV Correspondent | Saturday September 11, 2010 Cockpit conversations between the pilots of the doomed Air India Express Airliner which crashed in Mangalore and claimed lives of 158 people have established what clearly seems to be a case of pilot error. The voice recording shows that the commander did not heed his co-pilot's warning to go around. That mistake proved costly, and it's prompted the... 'We don't have enough runway left,' said Mangalore co-pilot India News | Miloni Bhatt | Thursday September 9, 2010 Four months after the Mangalore crash, it has now been established that 158 lives were lost due to pilot error. An analysis of audio on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shows that the Air India Express Boeing 737 was incorrectly aligned to the runway while attempting to land. The plane, the audio recording establishes, was too high to make a ...

The last 30 minutes of the plane that crashed at Mangalore India News | Miloni Bhatt | Thursday August 19, 2010 Early morning on May 22, the Air Traffic Control of the Mangalore airport began communicating with a flight that was coming in from Dubai. Half an hour later, the Air India flight crashed after the pilot overshot the runway. 158 people were killed.NDTV has exclusive access to the transcripts of that final half-hour exchange between the pilot ... Mangalore crash: Hearing reveals huge safety lapses India News | Miloni Bhatt | Wednesday August 18, 2010 Early on May 22, an Air India flight from Dubai to Mangalore crashed; 158 people were killed. The pilot had overshot the runway at Mangalore.(Read: 158 killed in crash, eight survivors)Now emerging - a huge point of concern - that the Air Traffic Control tower got to work just two minutes before the pilot touched down. (See Pics: Mangalore Ai...

Mangalore air crash: Memorial now, money later India News | Miloni Bhatt, Saif Khalid | Tuesday July 27, 2010 Holding her young daughter in her arms, Helen Menezes watched as others prayed for the 158 people who died in Air India crash at Mangalore two months ago. Air India holds prayer meet for Mangalore crash victims India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday July 27, 2010 Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav and Civil Aviation Secretary Madhavan Nambiar addressed a multi-faith prayer meet in Mangalore for the Air India crash victims. They laid wreaths at the actual crash site and also attended another meet called for the victims' families. The Air India CMD also announced that the final compensation to all ... Mangalore crash: Paramount Airways may lose license India News | NDTV Correspondent | Sunday June 13, 2010 Just days after the Mangalore air crash that killed 158 people, airline safety has come back into the spotlight for most airlines.

Retired Air Marshal to head Mangalore crash inquiry India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday June 3, 2010 Air Marshal (Retd) Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale, a fighter pilot and a former vice-chief of IAF, will head the Court of Inquiry (CoI) into the Mangalore air crash set up by the government on Thursday.Making the announcement nearly two weeks after the crash in which 158 people were killed, an official spokesperson said here the CoI has been asked to com... He stole from those who died in Mangalore crash India News | Maya Sharma | Thursday June 3, 2010 When Air India Express IX-812 crashed after overshooting the runway at the Mangalore airport, Sattar was one of several residents in the area who rushed to the accident site. Independent mechanism to probe air mishaps: Praful Patel India News | NDTV Correspondent/PTI | Thursday June 3, 2010 The Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council (CASAC) set up by the government within a week of the Mangalore crash has met for the first time today to discuss measures to strengthen safety.

The advisory council has members from across the aviation industry and is spearheaded by the Union Civil Aviation Minsiter Praful Patel. More powers will now be g... High-level aviation advisory body meets India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday June 3, 2010 A newly set up high-level aviation advisory body is meeting in New Delhi for the first time today and is expected to focus on areas where more attention is required to be paid to strengthen the safety environment.The Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council (CASAC), set up by the government a week after the Mangalore air crash that claimed 158 lives,... Mangalore runway length to be increased by 1,000 ft India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday May 30, 2010 The runway length of Mangalore airport, which saw a major air crash a week ago that claimed 158 lives, will be increased from the present 8,000 feet to 9,000 ft to include a larger spillover area, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has said."In fact, we have already taken a decision to extend the runway from 8,000 ft to 9,000 ft.

In that 9,000 ft... What led to Air India strike? India News | NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday May 26, 2010 After the Mangalore crash, Air India sent a special flight for relatives of the victims. An Air India engineer was not available to clear the flight, so the airline used a Kingfisher engineer to clear the flight. India News | NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday May 26, 2010 The Civil Aviation Minister chaired a high-level meeting of senior officials on Tuesday to review aviation safety. Mangalore air crash: Kasaragod's pain India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday May 25, 2010 The bodies of ten victims from Kerala's Kasarogod are yet to be identified. With bodies kept at the morgue in Mangalore hospital having more than two to three claimants, the authorities have opted for a DNA test. The delay is only adding to the grief of the families. Geetha is lying on the bed, struggling to come to terms with the worst tragedy in ...

Air India employees on strike, domestic flights hit India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday May 25, 2010 Several flights have been cancelled after about 13,000 Air India (AI) ground employees from across the country went on a flash strike against the management's show-cause notice to key union leaders for speaking up about protocol after the Mangalore crash. (Read: List of Air India flights cancelled) The strike has been on since 12.30 this afternoon... Mangalore air crash: Missing part of Black Box found India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday May 25, 2010 After three days of intense search, the missing part of the Black Box of the ill-fated Air India Express flight has been found at the crash site. (Watch: How the Black box was located)A seven-member team from an American safety board has been inspecting the crash site. They are likely to help the DGCA decode the Black Box. It may even be sent to th...

Mangalore crash: 13-year-old's search for family India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday May 25, 2010 At the mortuary in Mangalore, the families of victims mourned the death of their loved ones but one boy is mourning the death of his entire family. Air India flight IX 812 was carrying Rauhan's father, mother, younger sister, and little brother. But what is making it much worse is that he is unable to even trace the bodies of his two younger siblin... Mangalore air crash: Grief replaces wedding celebrations India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday May 25, 2010 Kasargod district in Kerala, which reported 49 deaths in air crash, is filled with heart rending stories. A family that was preparing for a wedding now mourns the death of two of its son, who died in the Mangalore air crash."When we were close to airport, I saw smoke billowing in the area. A taxi driver told me the aircraft had skidded on the runwa...

Passenger remembers air-hostess who died in Mangalore crash Cities | mid-day.com | Monday May 24, 2010 Dubai-based businessman, Dr BR Shetty, was shaken up by the news of the Mangalore tragedy on Saturday. He was one of the last persons to be served by air hostess Sujata Survase, before she was killed in the crash. Mangalore air crash: Did pilot try last-minute take-off? India News | NDTV Correspondent | Monday May 24, 2010 Did the pilot of Air India plane IX 812 attempt a last-minute take off? Crucial evidence that could finally unravel the mystery behind Saturday's crash in Mangalore that left 158 people dead has been found and investigators are now trying to find answers to questions like these as they look into what could have possibly gone wrong. (Pics: What we...

Mangalore Crash: Latest News, Photos, Videos on Mangalore Crash - NDTV.COM Mangalore Crash Blog: I walked out of the broken plane, says Mangalore crash survivor Blog | Pradeep Kotyan | Tuesday August 26, 2014 I just want to reach out to the relatives of the missing passengers of the Malaysia Airlines plane and tell them - you need to keep praying. Fire service dept woefully ill-prepared in Karnataka, says govt's auditor Karnataka News | Press Trust of India | Sunday April 1, 2012 Despite the Mangalore air crash and the fire mishap at Carlton Towers here, the Department of Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services does not have separate standard operating procedures (SOPs) to deal with different emergencies, a CAG report has revealed. India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday January 3, 2012 Mangalore crash: Supreme Court notice on Rs.75 lakh compensation Mangalore crash: Eyewitness account NDTV Correspondent | Friday November 25, 2011 An Air India Express aircraft from Dubai overshot the runway while landing at the Mangalore airport and crashed.

About 169 people were on board the flight. Air India on Mangalore air crash NDTV Correspondent | Friday November 25, 2011 Air India Express regrets to announce that a B737-800 aircraft operating as flight IX-812 from Dubai to Mangalore was involved in an accident early this morning, May 22, 2010. The accident occurred after the aircraft landed at Mangalore airport and overshot the runway. Air India is currently confirming the identities of the casualties. &nbs... Mangalore crash: Kerala High Court stays Rs 75 lakh compensation to victims' kin India News | NDTV Correspondent | Thursday August 25, 2011 In a setback for families of victims of last year's Mangalore air crash, a division bench of the Kerala High Court today overruled a single judge bench order asking air India to pay Rs 75 lakh as minimum compensation to families of victims.

Air India to pay Rs 75 lakh to Mangalore crash victims India News | Miloni Bhatt, Sovi Vidyadharan | Thursday July 21, 2011 The Kerala High Court Wednesday directed Air India to pay interim compensation of Rs.75 lakh each to the kin of 158 passengers who died in an air crash in Mangalore last year. Mangalore crash: One year on India News | NDTV Correspondent | Sunday May 22, 2011 A year ago, exactly on this day an Air India express aircraft over-shot the runway at Mangalore, killing 158 passengers flying from Dubai. Today, while the pain and grief has numbed for the victims' families, many of them still believe that the national carrier is haggling over the compensation they deserve."Nobody can manage the loss of my life. I... Mangalore air crash memorial demolished Cities | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday October 5, 2010 To its horror and disbelief, the Air India found that its memorial to the crash victims of Mangalore flight IX812 was destroyed, late on Monday night. The demolition was such, that not even a single panel was spared.

The police suspect, miscreants used stones to break the granite structure. Air India does not yet know who is behind it, or even the ... After Mangalore plane crash, co-pilots empowered India News | NDTV Correspondent | Saturday September 11, 2010 Cockpit conversations between the pilots of the doomed Air India Express Airliner which crashed in Mangalore and claimed lives of 158 people have established what clearly seems to be a case of pilot error. The voice recording shows that the commander did not heed his co-pilot's warning to go around. That mistake proved costly, and it's prompted the... 'We don't have enough runway left,' said Mangalore co-pilot India News | Miloni Bhatt | Thursday September 9, 2010 Four months after the Mangalore crash, it has now been established that 158 lives were lost due to pilot error. An analysis of audio on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shows that the Air India Express Boeing 737 was incorrectly aligned to the runway while attempting to land. The plane, the audio recording establishes, was too high to make a ...

The last 30 minutes of the plane that crashed at Mangalore India News | Miloni Bhatt | Thursday August 19, 2010 Early morning on May 22, the Air Traffic Control of the Mangalore airport began communicating with a flight that was coming in from Dubai. Half an hour later, the Air India flight crashed after the pilot overshot the runway. 158 people were killed.NDTV has exclusive access to the transcripts of that final half-hour exchange between the pilot ... Mangalore crash: Hearing reveals huge safety lapses India News | Miloni Bhatt | Wednesday August 18, 2010 Early on May 22, an Air India flight from Dubai to Mangalore crashed; 158 people were killed. The pilot had overshot the runway at Mangalore.(Read: 158 killed in crash, eight survivors)Now emerging - a huge point of concern - that the Air Traffic Control tower got to work just two minutes before the pilot touched down. (See Pics: Mangalore Ai...

Mangalore air crash: Memorial now, money later India News | Miloni Bhatt, Saif Khalid | Tuesday July 27, 2010 Holding her young daughter in her arms, Helen Menezes watched as others prayed for the 158 people who died in Air India crash at Mangalore two months ago. Air India holds prayer meet for Mangalore crash victims India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday July 27, 2010 Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav and Civil Aviation Secretary Madhavan Nambiar addressed a multi-faith prayer meet in Mangalore for the Air India crash victims. They laid wreaths at the actual crash site and also attended another meet called for the victims' families. The Air India CMD also announced that the final compensation to all ... Scores dead in Indian plane crash Only eight survive Air India Express crash in Mangalore with 166 people on board.

22 May 2010 21:30 GMT Air India said eight people were rescued from the plane, which overshot the runway [EPA] "As far as the information available with us is concerned, eight persons were rescued and shifted to local hospitals in Mangalore for their treatment," Anup Shrivasta, Air India's personnel director, announced in Mumbai. R Ramesh, Mangalore's deputy police commissioner, said the jet crashed at around 6:30am local time (0100 GMT) after overshooting the runway. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, although Ramesh said the airport had been hit by heavy rains which hampered rescue efforts. Indications are that the crash was an accident, Indian officials said. One TV report said the aircraft hit a radar pole on landing. "There was no distress indication from the pilot. That means between the pilot and the airport communication, there was no indication of any problem," VP Agarwal, director of Airports Authority of India, said. Budget carrier Television footage suggested the airliner had partially broken up, with smoke emanating from the fuselage, as rescue workers tried to douse the fire with foam.

Television images showed what appeared to be a forested area around the crash site. According to WAM, the UAE's state news agency, the aircraft's cockpit voice and flight data recorders - or the "black box" - have been recovered. Prerna Suri, Al Jazeera's India correspondent, said fire engines and rescue workers had difficulty accessing the scene as it is on a hilltop. She spoke of "incredible stories of survival", including that of a man who managed to clamber out of the wreckage shortly after the crash. "He managed to run to a local village despite his bone injuries and they took him to hospital in a three-wheel rickshaw," she said. Flames were seen blazing from the wreckage as rescue workers fought to bring the fire under control. One television channel showed a fireman carrying in his arms what seemed to be the body of a child. Investigation launched Vasanthi Hariprakash, a reporter in Mangalore with India's NDTV channel, said investigations have begun at the crash site to determine what happened. "What has been debated is the structure of the airport," she told Al Jazeera. "The airport is about 40 years old [and] we are talking about a very difficult topography.

The airport is surrounded by hills. [An accident] of this magnitude has raised questions of the flying ability and how much risk was involved. "This particular airport is a little tricky because it does not have the required 100 yards just in case the plane veers off the runway. But those are questions that will be seriously probed in the days to come." The Mangalore tragedy is the first major air crash in India in nearly a decade. Sixty-one people were killed when a Boeing 737 aircraft belonging to the domestic airline, Alliance Air, crashed into a residential area near the airport in the eastern Indian city of Patna in July 2000. Source: Al Jazeera and agencies Related

Question: In May 2010, 158 people were killed when an Air India plane overshot the runway at which Indian city's airport?
Answer: MANGALORE